Alv

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Alv: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Alv: Recorded since 1945, with a gap of 16 years, its highest recorded position is #209, and it was last ranked in 2012.

1registrar recorded it
27times a registrar ranked it
68years from first to last
#209highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Alv's record

Absent from every published list for 16 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Norway · Boys

Falling

among boys in Norway · 1945–2012

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Norway · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1945	#239
1946	#209
1947	#310
1948	#231
1949	#269
1950	#235
1951	#331
1952	#235
1953	#306
1954	#374
1955	#322
1957	#267
1958	#305
1959	#412
1960	#435
1961	#416
1963	#382
1964	#471
1965	#468
1966	#488
1967	#521
1968	#487
1977	#526
1978	#601
1993	#577
2010	#531
2012	#534

VerifiedSource: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name.Confidence: high.

See all Norway names · Source: Statistics Norway (SSB) — Born Persons by First Name

What the data shows

FallingNorway · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 27 of the 68 years from 1945 to 2012.

Official data for Norway, 1945–2012 · Statistics Norway (SSB). Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #239 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2012
Highest recorded position: #209 among boys in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–2012).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2012
Most recently recorded at #534 among boys in Norway, in 2012.
Norway · Boys

Alv by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Alv in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	57	5 of 10	11
1950s	74	9 of 10	8
1960s	41	8 of 10	5
1970s	9	2 of 10	5
1990s	4	1 of 10	4
2010s	8	2 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Alv appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #209 in Norway in 1946.

Alv's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2012	Norway	male	#534	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#531	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#577	4	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#601	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#526	5	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#487	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#521	4	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#488	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#468	5	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#471	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#382	7	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#416	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#435	5	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#412	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#305	9	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#267	11	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#322	7	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#374	5	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#306	7	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#235	12	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#331	6	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#235	12	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#269	9	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#231	13	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#310	7	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#209	16	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#239	12	High	Verified

Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1945 and 2012, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #209, first reached in 1946.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 16 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Althea · #898, 28y
Aluna · #1351, 12y
Alva · #47, 47y
Alvaro · #699, 26y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kim-Andre · #208, 23y
Gjert · #212, 28y
Holger · #212, 31y
Magny · #205, 22y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Brynjulf · #209, 20y
Edle · #209, 37y
Elzbieta · #209, 56y
Juan · #209, 75y

Alv was ranked #209 in Norway · Boys in 1946. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alv and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Alv without appearing here.

Alv moved ahead of

Tony Compare
In 2011 they stood at #531 and #343 in Norway · Boys; by 2012 that had become #534 and #566.
Matthew Compare
In 2011 they stood at #531 and #453 in Norway · Boys; by 2012 that had become #534 and #554.

Moved ahead of Alv

Elias Compare
In 1992 they stood at #601 and #611 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #577 and #153.
Joakim Compare
In 1976 they stood at #521 and #534 in Norway · Boys; by 1977 that had become #526 and #127.
Sondre Compare
In 1976 they stood at #521 and #546 in Norway · Boys; by 1977 that had become #526 and #187.
Ulrik Compare
In 1992 they stood at #468 and #508 in Norway · Boys; by 1993 that had become #577 and #260.

Moved the opposite way to Alv

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 while Aksel went from #174 to #29.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 while Andreas went from #140 to #24.
Christian Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 while Christian went from #161 to #69.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 while Daniel went from #280 to #16.

Moved the same way as Alv

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 and Anders from #55 to #202.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 and Arne from #6 to #231.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 and Bjørn from #3 to #130.
Dag Compare
Between 1945 and 2012 in Norway · Boys, Alv went from #239 to #534 and Dag from #48 to #465.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for Norway from 1945 to 2012. Highest recorded position: #209 in Norway in 1946. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Alv

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